Literary usage of Kingposts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)"The 'medicine of kingposts' ... was drunk before installing the kingposts and
ridgepole. If, the workers did not drink these medicines, they ran the risk of ..."

2.A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)"kingposts are therefore placed in this direction between the adjoining beams of
the trusses. These king-post" consist of two beams, one on each side of the ..."

3.Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1886)"The collar beams rest on a central purlin, and this is supported on kingposts,
which rise from tie-beams bracketed on corbels. From the upper part of the ..."

5.Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society by Essex Archaeological Society (1903)""Three ancient principals of the roof remain with moulded tie- :'eams, kingposts,
and braces. The roof is concealed by a plaster :eiling. ..."

7.Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray (1863)"Three great bows, like the arches of a bow-string bridge, are connected to
kingposts and queen posts, and strapped and fastened, so that the whole is as ..."